After his sensitivity following Anthony Foley's death, there was his turning villain of the piece when manoeuvring to exit Munster.
Ireland has an extremely complicated relationship with Rassie Erasmus, Munster has an even more complicated relationship.
A status compounded by his recommendation, in order to help speed his departure, of the disastrous Johann van Graan as his successor. "So he puts on one facade to achieve another goal and South Africa were delighted to have him as Munster would have been when they did have him, I think he's a difficult and hardy competitor.
Continues Skinstad : "Johannes wasn't a full-time coach when I left South Africa, he was an assistant coach at that stage and then he stepped into the breach at the Bulls. "You get a big character like Rassie and Johannes goes with him and if you live under the shadow of a character and suddenly you come out from under the shadow of the character, you are expected to be all the things that he was and maybe you're not immediately.
"Ireland have been doing well against South Africa recently, one of the pluses is the speed of game that Ireland have managed to start under various coaching regimes and then refine. "I played with both Shane Horgan and Brian O'Driscoll during my time as Barbarians captain and they were fantastic players.
Skinstad expects Johnny Sexton to have no problems navigating his way through the rest of the competition.This is not the bad old days when out-halves could be specifically targeted by illegal methods - there are too many cameras trained on the pitch.
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